American Myths Quotes

#1. The most twisted but perennial of American myths is that everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. (p. 174)

Robin R. Meyers

#2. It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose.

Sinclair Lewis

#3. The Truth about Leo Strauss is the most balanced and insightful book yet written about Strauss's thought, students, and political influence. It dispels myths promulgated by both friends and foes and persuasively traces the conflicting paths that American thinkers indebted to Strauss have taken.

William Galston

#4. The Rabia Balkhi, registered to Captain Eric Khan out of Pallas, was still just goods and people heading into the frontier to stake a claim. Fewer horses, maybe, but more fusion reactors.

James S.A. Corey

#5. American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

Tom Hooper

#6. Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.

Pierce Brown

#7. I say that whoever claims to have finished a canvas is terribly arrogant.

Claude Monet

#8. A devotee's life should be so exemplary that it increases the faith upon other devotees.

Radhanath Swami

#9. As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006.

Jose Rodriguez

#10. As a leader you set the tone for your entire team. Communicate your vision.

Colin Powell

#11. If you really screw up, send roses.

Letitia Baldrige

#12. Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...

Nelson Algren

#13. I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

Bharati Mukherjee

#14. I don't think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that's one of the biggest myths in American lore. They're tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don't think they're particularly smart at all.

Ben Stein

#15. Lying can be a second skin, but when you are called out on that lie, it can become all too easy for that skin to start to peel away.

Jillian Cantor

#16. Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

Diane Wakoski

#17. In the 1940s a white American man wrote about the sacred myths of other cultures. He decided he knew what they meant better than those cultures themselves did.

Drew Jacob

#18. The content and forms of American communications-the myths and the means of transmitting them-are devoted to manipulation. When successfully employed, as they invariably are, the result is individual passivity, a state of inertia that precludes action.

Herbert Schiller

#19. THE AFRO-AMERICAN HAS BEEN HEIR TO THE MYTHS THAT IT IS BETTER TO BE POOR THAN RICH, LOWER-CLASS RATHER THAN MIDDLE OR UPPER, EASYGOING RATHER THAN INDUSTRIOUS, EXTRAVAGANT RATHER THAN THRIFTY AND ATHLETIC RATHER THAN ACADEMIC.

John Connolly

#20. When you have a steady job you're more inspired to broaden yourself.

Bette Midler

#21. My tattoos, like most people's, were reminders, badges of personal experiences. Yes, I might wear them on my skin for the world to see, but their meaning was a little too personal.

N.R. Walker